Up until yesterday, my spouse and I shared a telus plan since 2011. He has a cell phone with unlimited talk/txt and I have a sim card enabled ipad mini. We shared 1 gig of data between the 2 of us and rarely ever went over the 1 gig, unless were out of town. Our plan was $84 (incl) taxes.
I can't believe how long it took us to learn about Public Mobile. After a week of comparing plans to our current plan we decided that we should make the change. First we started with calling telus to see if they would reduce our rates. They were surprised with how good our plan was and there wasn't much they could do. But they did knock $5 off and give us another 0.5gig of data. Looking at the numbers again, PM would still save us money, plus the potential to reduce our bill through referrals, auto pay, community involvement, we made the switch over.
We found someone who could refer us and he also gave us 2 sim cards. Great for him as he got $50 from us in referral bonus, and the sims only cost him $20 (if he paid retail price).
I set myself up first with my ipad first. Now I am not a cellphone person but I decided to go through the steps online. Filled out the form, put in sim card number, referral number, and paid for the data only plan which includes 1.5gig data for $30. I didn't have a phone number to transfer so it was quite easy. I then took apart my case and removed my nano telus sim and set it aside, and put in the new sim. After turning the ipad on and off a few times, the data was not working. So i did a bit of reading. After 2 minutes I found that I needed to change the APN Settings (this can be found in Settings/Cellular Data/ APN Settings and changed it to sp.mb.com). Easy peasy. Nothing else needed changing at all. Turned the ipad off and on, and BAM- I have data!
Next my spouse set up his plan. I tried to have him use my referral number so I would get the bonus and monthly referral pay, but he is a good honest person (which makes me want to be a better person) and he used the referral number that came with the free sim. He set up his phone with no issues at all.
My plan of data only is $30 and my spouse's plan of talk/text and data is also $30, bringing us to $60, minus $4 for autopay, brings it to $56, plus tax, so we are at $62.75 which is over $20 savings from telus (or ~$15 from our reduced telus bill). Instead of sharing a gig of data, I have 1 gig, and he has 1.5 gig.
If you have been thinking about making the switch, and ran the numbers, and if it financially makes sense, then what is holding you back? Do the math, numbers don't lie!
